Today in London, begins week of Russian auctions

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Four auction houses hold more than a dozen trades. And although the total number of works submitted to the court collectors, notably less than in the pre-crisis years, interest in them remains high. As before, the pre-auction the evening collection shows were filled with Russian-speaking crowd. From London - TATIANA Markin.

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will buy or not - this question asked by everyone who is in the halls of Christie `s, Sotheby` s, MacDougall `s and Bonhams. Ask each other and themselves. Had time to form over the last couple of days, filled with party auction houses and exhibition galleries, related to Russian art, the general opinion is: will. Collectors will buy, because a year, waiting for the terrible consequences of the crisis, restrained himself, but have a habit of art is partly like a drug, and can not long endure. Dealers will buy, because that is what this is their job and they must take care that the market is not dead at all. It is said that there were even some new buyers, apparently attracted by the adjustment (in other words, a decrease) prices.

Perhaps the record for $ 5 million and above for a picture, as had happened in this season will not be. Works valued at more than $ 1 million, not much, but they are. The habit of judging the quality of the picture according to its evaluation (more than a million or less), of course, anecdotal, but common grain in it. The main things in the upcoming auction - a canvas, painted by Russian artists from the "first name", large and decorative, with clear provenance. At Sotheby `s is" Venice "Alexandra Exter," The Garden "by Mikhail Larionov," Cossack "Ilya Repin. At Christie `s" The stock Peking Theater Alexander Yakovlev and "Legend" by Nicholas Roerich. In MacDougall `s - nude Zinaida Serebryakova and Vladimir Baranoff-Rossini. It's all about painting, but there are other sections, each with their customers.

For example, it is easy to prophesy the success of the auction Sotheby `s, which will sell the precious little things from the heritage of the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, decorated detective story of salvation, and shown at an exhibition in Moscow (see Kommersant from October 21). Certainly much interest will specialized auction of icons that suits MacDougall `s; as this remained the only auction house, offering a large collection of Russian art in the second half of XX century. Luxury porcelain palace vase offers Christie `s (this auction house, this time a very impressive collection of porcelain).

All will become more or less clear tonight - one after the Sotheby `s auction will Heritage Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, and after him - an evening auction of paintings.
http://www.kommersant.ru/doc.aspx?Do...4&ThemesID=687

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House Sotheby's on the first day of trading was able to sell 19 lots of 37 and to gain about 4.1 million pounds. "Venice" Alexandra Exter, estimated at 0,9 - 1,2 million pounds, went under the hammer for 1.05 million. Two paintings by Aivazovsky sold for 325 thousand each, thus blocking the estimate. "Cafe d'Angleterre" Konstantin Korovin was sold for 337 thousand (pre-assessment - 200-300 thousand). His customers do not find many of the top lots, including the "Pine Forest" Shishkin (estimate 400-600 thousand pounds), "Garden in Tiraspol," Larionov (estimated at 500-700 thousand) and "Cossack" Repin (estimate 600-800 thousand pounds).

Bidding at Sotheby's will also take place on December 1;
Results:
http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot...how_lot_name=Y
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 Auction Bonhams; he managed to sell just over half the lots, and to gain about 1.7 million pounds. Top-lot trades, "Morning sketch" Aivazovsky, estimated at 150-250 thousand pounds, was sold for 378,4 thousand. In "Portrait of a girl with an apple" Nicholas Feshin buyer paid 168 thousand pounds (estimate - 55-85 thousand).
Zurab Tsereteli naturmort -9.840 pounds (interesting, good work)

http://www.bonhams.com/cgi-bin/publi...&iSaleNo=16883

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Collection of heirlooms of the Romanov dynasty, discovered recently in Sweden, sold at Sotheby's in London for more than 7 million pounds sterling.

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At the auction were put up about 100 lots - mostly cigarette cases and cufflinks that belonged to Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna and her husband, Grand Duke Vladimir Alexandrovich, son of Emperor Alexander II and brother of Emperor Alexander III.

As expected, one of the top lots was the casket from the two-color gold with the monogram of Tsar Nicholas II, donated them to the younger son of Prince Vladimir Alexandrovich. Casket, decorated with enamel and precious stones, went under the hammer for 601 thousand pounds in Estimé in 70-90 thousand pounds. For it is accompanied by a note by the emperor in Russian: "Aliks and I ask you to take this little svunir въ remembrance of this day!" Nicky.

The buyer was a private collector from the CIS countries.

Faberge Cigarette case wizard Aug. Hollminga of tri-color gold with engraved hearts and decorated with diamonds and went for 601 thousand pounds. Another Faberge enamel cigarette case of the jeweler Mikhail Pershin, decorated with gold ornaments in the rococo style, and diamonds and dated 1899, was sold for 577 thousand pounds.

Several cigarette cases went under the hammer at a price exceeding 400 pounds at the maximum pre-assessment, not exceed 70 thousand.

Sotheby's managed to sell all the lots, which is quite rare for bidding, said the agency.

Romanov family treasures were deposited in the Swedish diplomatic mission in Petrograd in November 1918, shortly before the rupture of diplomatic relations with Sweden's revolutionary Russia.

He brought a collection of paintings diplomats Professor Richard Bergolts two pillow cases, which were also on sale at the current bid and the evaluation of 200-300 pounds were sold for 6 and 4.7 thousand pounds sterling.
More than 90 years, the collection was in the storehouses of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sweden in Stockholm. The opportunity to return the treasures of the owners was discussed several times, but in 1952 it was decided to break the wax seal on the bags and carry inventory. After that, forget about the collection for several more decades, until in 2008 after the reorganization of the archives were not found descendants of the Grand Duchess. Things were brought to a trusted person, as well as experts, followed by summer 2009 collection brought to London for sale.

1.LOT 80 A FABERGÉ IMPERIAL PRESENTATION JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD AND ENAMEL BOX, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG,
CIRCA 1896
70,000-90,000 GBP Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 601,250 GBP
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2.LOT 72 A GIFT FROM EMPRESS MARIA FEODOROVANA
A FABERGÉ IMPERIAL ENAMEL CIGARETTE CASE WITH JEWELLED TWO-COLOUR GOLD MOUNTS, WORKMASTER MICHAEL PERCHIN, ST PETERSBURG, 1899
60,000-80,000 GBP
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 577,250 GBP
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3.LOT 93 A RARE FABERGÉ JEWELLED THREE-COLOUR GOLD CIGARETTE CASE, WORKMASTER AUGUST HOLLMING, ST PETERSBURG, 1899-1908
25,000-35,000 GBP
Lot Sold. Hammer Price with Buyer's Premium: 601,250 GBP
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4.Zapiska Emperor
 
Results of http://www.sothebys.com/app/live/lot..._number=L09678